Brian's review
The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted According to Parallelistic Patterns by Donald W. Parry
Brian's review
rating:
recommended for: LDS interested in the ancient forms of the BOM
status: Read in December, 2004
rating:
recommended for: LDS interested in the ancient forms of the BOM
status: Read in December, 2004
Don Parry was a professor of mine at BYU. He is a brilliant Hebrew scholar and enthusiast of all things having to do with connections between the Book of Mormon and the ancient world. In this version of the Book of Mormon he has painstakingly combed the text looking for patterns that fit into Hebraic parallelisms. To even just pick the book up and skim its pages, it is incredible to see the amount of material that can be read in this form. Whether or not the intent of the authors was always to present their thoughts in this way, or if some of it is coincidental really doesn't matter. It's a fun read anyway.
